Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, الأعداد 77-79Johnson, 1810 - 220 من الصفحات |
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Addison admire Amoret arms beauty behold blest blood bold brave breast bright Cæsar Cato Cato's charms DANIEL PURCELL death Decius delight dost dreadful Dryden e'er eternal ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate father fear fir'd flame fools friends give gods grace grief hand happy hast hear heart heaven Henry Sacheverel honour hope Hudibras immortal Juba king live Lord Lord Halifax lov'd Lucia Lucius lyre majestic band Marc Marcia Marcus mighty mind mortal Muse nature ne'er never numbers Numidian nymph o'er once pains passion Pharsalia pleasure poem poet Portius pow'r praise prince rage ravish'd rise Roman Roman senate Rome sacred scenes Sempronius shade shew shine sight song sorrows soul sound SSSSSSSS stream sung sweet sword Syph Syphax tears thee thine thou thoughts Timotheus tongue trembling verse virtue Whig whilst winds young youth
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الصفحة 20 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble...
الصفحة 16 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
الصفحة 78 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
الصفحة 18 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
الصفحة 15 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
الصفحة 17 - And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found...
الصفحة 17 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
الصفحة 15 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
الصفحة 3 - A watchtower once ; but now, so fate ordains. Of all the pile an empty name remains. From its...
الصفحة 18 - CREATOR spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come visit every pious mind ; Come pour thy joys on human kind ; From sin and sorrow set us free, And make thy temples worthy thee.